List of Ella Fitzgerald awards

This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Ella Fitzgerald.

Awards and accolades

Awards, citations and honours

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*Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
*American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
*Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
*Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
*Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
*Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)
*Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1979)
*Inductee into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
* Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
*Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
*Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
*Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
*Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
*George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
*National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
*National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
*UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
*NAACP Image Award (1988)
*The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
*Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
*Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George H. W. Bush
*National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
*Pied Piper Award
*George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
*Honorary doctorates from Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton
*"VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll" rank #13 (1999 - posthumous)

Grammy Awards

Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1967.

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook" (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook" (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "But Not for Me" (from "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook" (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Ella Swings Lightly" (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "" " (1960)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife" (from "") (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" (1962)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Fitzgerald and Pass... Again" (1976)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Fine and Mellow" (1979)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "A Perfect Match" (1980)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "Digital III at Montreux" (1981)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "The Best Is Yet to Come" (1983)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "All That Jazz" (1990)

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:
*Ella Fitzgerald for "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks" (1995)

Grammy Hall of Fame

Recordings of Ella Fitzgerald were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

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